Pathways to socio-economic and civic-political inclusion of ethnic minorities in Britain and Canada: The influence of family capital

英国和加拿大少数族裔融入社会经济和公民政治的途径：家庭资本的影响

• 批准号: ES/N011635/1
• 负责人: Laurence Lessard-Phillips
• 金额: $ 20.83万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN011635%2F1
• 关键词: Pathways; socio; economic; civic; political

Social cohesion is perceived as an important social goal within academic and policy circles. A crucial precondition to this goal is social inclusion, i.e. ensuring that individuals become full members of society by accessing societal resources and institutions (i.e. schools; the labour market; civic and political life). In recent decades, fast-growing ethnic diversity has led to intensifying policy and academic debates on how this is affecting processes of social inclusion and cohesion. Examining the factors influencing ethnic inclusion has thus increased in importance but has often focussed on specific, separate spheres - e.g. socio-economic, cultural or spatial. Recent research has shown, however, that exclusion (i.e. a lack of inclusion) in the socio-economic sphere is linked to exclusion in civic-political arenas for certain minority groups. This calls for further research on the dynamics of ethnic inclusion into the economic and civic-political spheres, the interplay of these two spheres, and how these lifelong processes are shaped by family influences. Given this, our aim with this project is to take a collaborative, comparative, and policy-oriented approach to investigate the patterns of ethnic minority inclusion within British and Canadian socio-economic and civic-political institutions over time and assess the role that family capital plays in determining the inclusion trajectories of individuals. We use the best available data sources (including Understanding Society; the Millennium Cohort Study; the British Election Study in Britain and National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, Youth in Transition Survey, and the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics in Canada) and the most sophisticated longitudinal statistical analyses to do so. Our research team, which includes investigators at the University of Manchester, McGill University and the Runnymede Trust, has extensive experience to address the following questions:1. What are the pathways to inclusion of ethnic minorities into British and Canadian institutions?We are interested in identifying and defining outcomes of socio-economic and civic-political inclusion; the interplay of inclusion in these two spheres; whether outcomes observed at one point in time vary over time (i.e. pathways); whether outcomes and pathways are consistent across ethnic, gender, generational and class lines; and whether there are similarities and differences in the inclusion outcomes and pathways in comparison to the 'majority' population. 2. What role does family capital (financial, human, social and cultural) play?We wish to explore the impact of various forms of family capital on the observed outcomes and pathways of inclusion as well as the points in individuals' lives where these family influences are most important. We also seek to shed light on how the role of family capital is affected by family structure and characteristics as well as the composition of the local areas in which families are embedded.3. What are the best ways to address the differentials in family influences?Drawing on the full body of evidence from data analysis (as described above) and feedback from research and policy stakeholders, we want to reflect on how issues of exclusion linked to varying levels of family capital could be tackled by policy makers, with an emphasis on identifying the most effective measures of family capital.4. Do different policy environments generate different types of outcomes?We wish to explore the role that varying policy context (i.e. Canada and Britain) may play on inclusion outcomes and pathways and on the role of the family capital, with a focus on building a strong evidence base for shaping policy debates. Outputs of the project will be made available to a wide-ranging audience via diverse dissemination and impact activities such as the publication of policy briefings, press releases, and dissemination events.

社会凝聚力被学术界和政策界视为一项重要的社会目标。实现这一目标的一个重要前提是社会包容，即确保个人通过获得社会资源和机构（即学校、劳动力市场、公民和政治生活）成为社会的正式成员。近几十年来，族裔多样性的快速增长导致了关于这如何影响社会包容和凝聚力的政策和学术辩论的加剧。因此，审查影响族裔融合的因素变得更加重要，但往往侧重于具体的、单独的领域-例如社会经济、文化或空间。然而，最近的研究表明，社会经济领域的排斥（即缺乏包容）与某些少数群体在公民政治领域的排斥有关。这就要求进一步研究种族融入经济和公民政治领域的动态，这两个领域的相互作用，以及这些终身过程是如何形成的家庭影响。有鉴于此，我们的目标与这个项目是采取合作，比较和政策导向的方法来调查随着时间的推移，在英国和加拿大的社会经济和公民政治机构内的少数民族包容的模式，并评估家庭资本在确定个人的包容轨迹中发挥的作用。我们使用最好的数据来源（包括理解社会;千禧年队列研究;英国选举研究在英国和全国纵向调查的儿童和青年，青年在过渡期调查，和劳动力和收入动态调查在加拿大）和最复杂的纵向统计分析这样做。我们的研究团队包括曼彻斯特大学、麦吉尔大学和Runnymede Trust的研究人员，他们在解决以下问题方面拥有丰富的经验：1.少数族裔融入英国和加拿大机构的途径是什么？我们感兴趣的是确定和界定社会经济和公民政治包容的成果;包容在这两个领域的相互作用;在一个时间点观察到的成果是否随时间而变化（即途径）;结果和途径是否在种族、性别、世代和阶级之间保持一致;以及与“大多数”人群相比，纳入结果和途径是否存在相似性和差异。2.家庭资本（金融、人力、社会和文化）发挥什么作用？我们希望探讨各种形式的家庭资本对所观察到的结果和包容途径的影响，以及个人生活中这些家庭影响最重要的地方。我们还试图阐明家庭资本的作用是如何受到家庭结构和特征以及家庭所在地区的构成的影响。解决家庭影响差异的最佳方法是什么？根据数据分析（如上所述）的全部证据以及研究和政策利益相关者的反馈，我们希望反思政策制定者如何解决与不同家庭资本水平相关的排斥问题，重点是确定最有效的家庭资本措施。不同的政策环境是否会产生不同类型的结果？我们希望探讨不同的政策背景（即加拿大和英国）可能发挥的作用，对包容性的结果和途径和家庭资本的作用，重点是建立一个强有力的证据基础，塑造政策辩论。将通过各种传播和影响活动，如出版政策简报、新闻稿和传播活动，向广大受众提供项目产出。